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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by sidewndr46 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:04AM (#42389147)
The idea that Global Tetrahedron would generate revenue from InfoWars is a farce. Jones is InfoWars. Any market value assigned to InfoWars without Jones explicitly involvement is a farce. Even a non bankruptcy sale of InfoWars would require him to participate in the business for an extended period of time. Even then, it'd just be some investor bankrolling Jones.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by pdpi on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:50AM (#42389748)
That might or might not be true. If Infowars is _that_ worthless without Jones, then _any_ offer is a farce and the whole auction is pointless.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by lupusreal on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:18PM (#42390136)
> If Infowars is _that_ worthless without Jones, then _any_ offer is a farce

That doesn't make sense. A genuine offer for an unprofitable thing could be made. That's not farcical, just a bad investment.

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by pdpi on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:43PM (#42390460)
Yes, that's precisely what I mean. It might or might not be a bad bet, but the Sandy Hook families are just as entitled to take that bet as anybody else. The idea that it's farcical to entertain any offer that doesn't involve putting Jones back in charge leads you down a really weird road.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by sidewndr46 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @02:16PM (#42391597)
Now that you say it that way, it does make some kind of sense.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by dllthomas on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:05PM (#42389981)
That seems true for any attempt to continue using the IP for the same thing. Turning it into a parody of that thing might have an audience (and therefore produce ad revenue), would not seem to need Jones involved, and be something for which Global Tetrahedron seems well resourced.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by sidewndr46 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @02:17PM (#42391610)
I thought that too, but Global Tetrahedron could just found 'InfooWars' as a satire site without Jones estate involvement at all.
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